Directed by:
Jack WebbScreenplay:
William BowersCinematography:
Edward ColmanComposer:
Ray HeindorfCast:
Jack Webb, William Conrad, David Nelson, Whitney Blake, Joe Flynn, Fay McKenzie, William Tracy, Richard Deacon, Howard McNear, Nancy Valentine, Jonathan Hole, James Bell, Richard Bakalyan (more)Plots(1)
It's late Thursday night at the local paper and a savvy city editor, a world-weary but upright writer, and a beleagured copy boy prepare to put the next day's paper to bed. Suddenly two stories come over the wire. In the first, a young girl has gotten lost in the city's storm drains, and her life is endangered when a terrible storm erupts and the sewers begin to fill with runoff. In the second, the grandson of the writer is among a team of missing Air Force pilots who were attempting to set a record flying from Hawaii to Washington, DC. This suspenseful, newsroom drama chronicles the ways in which these situations affect the workers as they try to get the paper out on time. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Jack Webb
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Men (1950)
Dark City (1950)
William Conrad
USA
Best movies:
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
David Nelson
USA
Best movies:
Up in Smoke (1978)
Peyton Place (1957)
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Whitney Blake
USA
Best movies:
The Betsy (1978)
Joe Flynn
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Lover Come Back (1961)
Fay McKenzie
USA
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
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William Tracy
USA
Best movies:
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Richard Deacon
USA
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The Young Philadelphians (1959)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Howard McNear
USA
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Irma la Douce (1963)
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
Nancy Valentine
USA
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Father's Little Dividend (1951)
Jonathan Hole
USA
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James Bell
USA
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The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
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Richard Bakalyan
USA
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Pressure Point (1962)
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Dick Whittinghill
USA
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The Errand Boy (1961)
Olan Soule
USA
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Alan Reynolds
USA
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Charles Perry
USA
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John Truax
USA
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Marshall Kent
USA
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John Nolan
USA
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